• Detail of an historiated initial 'I'(n) of a building with a small face visible behind the bars of the window., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

the window. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'N'(isi) of a church building., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

church building. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) of heads of king David and Christ (?), and at the beginning of Psalm 69., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

Psalm 69. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initials 'D'(eus) with a head of a king, a historiated initial 'O'(mnipotens) with a head of a bishop, and a historiated initial 'D'(eus) of the holy Spirit as a dove, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'C'(eli) of the Virgin and Child, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(eli) of the Virgin and Child, with a foliate border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

foliate border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Historiated initial 'D'(eus) with heads of the Virgin and archangel Gabriel, a historiated initial 'D'(eus) of a head of the Virgin and the Holy Spirit as a dove, a historiated initial 'G'(raciam) of a head of the Virgin, and a historiated initial 'C'(oncede) of the Virgin and Child., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

and Child. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Illuminated initial 'S'(uscipere) with the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, and a partial bar border., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

bar border. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'S'(uscipere) with the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

of Gloucester. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Detail of the arms of Humfrey, duke of Gloucester, in the lower margin of the folio., Selection of Psalms, with calendar, prayers, and litanies ('The Psalter of Humfrey of Gloucester')

the folio. Other manuscripts associated with the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms are: Guildhall, Corporation of London Records Office, 'Statuta Antiqua Angliae', f. 137, London, Drapers' Company, Patent of Arms, 10 March 1439, Capetown, South African Public Library, Grey 4

• Decorated initial 'A', at the beginning of the Tract against clerks., Tract against clerks (ends imperfectly)

Tract against clerks (ends imperfectly) Unidentified owner, 18th century: note attributing the tract to John Wycliffe (f. 1v). Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: catalogue 1836, no. 1359; bought by Phillipps.Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and

• Flyleaf with inscription of the title., Thebais (index Thebaid), with gloss, accessus, and anonymous life

perhaps as an attribution rather than a note of possession). ? Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (b. 1754 d. 1838): his sale, London, 8 May 1816, lot 3439, bought by Burney for £6 6s.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired

• Decorated initial 'I'(n ye) wit a full border, at the beginning of Genesis., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 19.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial with border London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of an pen-flourished initial 'I'(ou)., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

partially erased: 'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 19.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Pen-flourished initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of the left-hand column of the folio with two pen-flourished initials., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

partially erased: 'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 19.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Pen-flourished initials London England, S. E. (London?)

• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of Esther., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

partially erased: 'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 19.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Foliate Initial 'T'(he book) with a full border, at the beginning of Matthew., Wycliffite Bible, in the later version

partially erased: 'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 19.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Foliate initial London England, S. E. (London?)

• Map of the world and an illuminated initial 'I'(cy), and the beginning of the text., Le premier livre de la cosmographie en rhetorique francoyse

/ de France (f. 1). It does not describe Henry as king of Ireland (a title Henry assumed in June 1541). Map of the world Jean Mallard Jean Mallard Jean Mallard Jean Mallard London England, S. E. (London), or France

• Detail of inscription., Domesday book (ends imperfectly)

the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in

• Miniature of a battle at the beginning of Book 2., Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie

value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Battle Delafita Delafita Christine de Pizan (index Christine de Pisan) London England, S. E. (London)